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1961ref. 148846New York: Bill Doll and Company 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Bill Doll and Company unknown books
1938ref. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 148847N.p.: Agence D E B. 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso one with annotations on verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay as opposed to one adapted from existing material perhaps the finest of his many films and according to one of its greatest champions Paul Schrader "as close to perfect as a film can be." 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 314. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosebaum 1000. Paul Schrader's Canon Fodder 4. Grant France Classic Noir. Selby France Classic Noir. Agence D E B. unknown books
1944ref. 148958Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage photograph of the Tower reader's edition of Cornell Woolrich's crime novel written under the pseudonym William Irish made as publicity the 1944 film adaptation. Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 148841Universal City: Universal Pictures 1967. Collection of ten vintage photographs including eight borderless reference photographs one borderless promotional photograph of Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton and one promotional studio still photographof the same from the 1967 film. Nine of these with a mimeo snipe on verso one with additional "David Lasceller" stamp on verso. Peter Watkin's outrageous and paranoiac dystopian satire of the world's most famous and beloved pop star who is controlled by a totalitarian British government. Patti Smith covered one of the film's songs "Set Me Free" as "Privilege Set Me Free" on her 1978 album "Easter." Set in a near-future England shot on location in London and Birmingham England. 8 x 10 inches. Light edge and corner wear else Near Fine. BFI Flipside 7. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript wax pencil to five images. Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 148891N.p.: Universal International Pictures 1966. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1966 film. Each with stamps on the verso reading "Girosign Ltd." and "393." Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good only with some creasing to several cards and some faint pen markings to one of the cards. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1929ref. 148879Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1929 part-talkie film. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Loosely based on the 1874 novel by Jules Verne. The benevolent scientist-leader of a volcanic island is attacked by an evil baron leading to a submarine chase in which they discover a race of water-bound humanoids. Shooting for the film began in 1926 but the advent of talkies and bad weather would slow production ultimately delaying release until 1929. Lauded as an impressive cinematic feat the astronomical price tag of the production-over $1 million in 1929-all but guaranteed the film would be a financial disaster at the box office turning studios off to the idea of science fiction for many years. All color copies were believed lost but in 2013 one existing color print was discovered in Prague and has since been restored through a collaboration between US film experts and the Czech National Film Archive. 8 x 10 inches. With even fading else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962ref. 148842N.p.: N.p. 1962. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Rare. "Love at Twenty" is anthology film on the titular theme by five filmmakers Shintaro Ishihara Marcel Ophuls Renzo Rossellini François Truffault and Andrzej Wajda united with a score by Georges Delerue and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Truffaut's short is the second of five films which follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel Jean-Pierre Léaud. The films in the Antoine Doinel series are "The 400 Blows" 1959 "Antoine and Colette" 1962 "Stolen Kisses" 1968 "Bed and Board" 1970 and "Love on the Run" 1979. Antoine now aged 17 falls in love for the first time to the lovely Colette Marie-France Pisier whose feelings though tender are not reciprocated. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 185. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 148867North Hollywood: Republic Pictures 1949. Four vintage photographs two studio still photographs and two publicity photographs one iconic photograph of Robert Mitchum and one headshot of Shepperd Studwick all from the 1949 film. Based on the novella by John Steinbeck who also wrote the screenplay published in full in 1937. A young boy Peter Miles is enamored with the colt he has been entrusted to raise only to find the colt has caught an illness and is dying. Steinbeck's first film assignment though other Steinbeck screenplays would end up being released prior to "The Red Pony." At the time it was the longest and costliest production in Republic history borrowing Robert Mitchum from RKO and also starring Myrna Loy. Set in and shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing in margins and even fading on three of the photographs and a small bruise in the right margin of one. Republic Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 148868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of the American R&B and jump blues musical group The Treniers from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Corp. stamp on verso. Rock and Roll star Arnie Haines Alan Dale returns home to the town of Melondale which banned Rock and Roll music and with the help of disc Jockey Alan Freed as himself tries to convince the town that the music won't turn their children into delinquents. With notable lip-syncing performances from Bill Haley and His Comets Little Richard and The Treniers. A follow-up to the 1956 Rock and Roll film "Rock Around the Clock" also directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Robert E. Kent and also featuring Alan Freed and Bill Haley and His Comets. Set in the fictitious town of Melondale shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1973ref. 148870N.p.: The American Film Theatre 1973. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film housed in their original brown paper envelope stamped "The Homecoming 8 Stills." Based on the 1965 play by Harold Pinter who also wrote the screenplay. Teddy Michael Jayston brings his wife Ruth Vivien Merchant to visit his estranged and abrasive family in a dingy claustrophobic North London flat after a nine year absence. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. The American Film Theatre unknown books
1975ref. 148809N.p.: N.p. 1975. Two promotional portrait photographs of David Bowie likely used as part of a press release announcing Bowie's casting in the 1976 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Each with a fold over mimeo snipe from public relations firm Rogers and Cowan dated 5-29-75. One photograph with Bowie's name and RCA Records and Tapes printed in the bottom margin. Just three weeks prior RCA had released Bowie's ninth studio album "Young Americans" and earlier that year the BBC had broadcast the documentary "Cracked Actor" about the singer which led director Nicholas Roeg to cast Bowie in his upcoming adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1963 novel. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with slight even fading else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 304. N.p. unknown books
1964ref. 148813New York: Janus Films 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Winter Light"1963. A stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by subtle performances from Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. Ester Thulin a translator and intellectual suffering from a terminal disease is traveling home with her younger resentful sister Anna Linblom and Anna's son Johan Jorgen Lindstrom when they stop in the town of Timoka in a fictional European county on the brink of war with an unknown dialect. After they check into a nearly empty hotel with the exception of a group of Spanish dwarves in a traveling show Anna leaves and has an affair with a waiter as Johan wanders the hallways. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day. 8 x 10 inches. Three with faint even fading one with pinholes to corners one with a small closed tear in top margin else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 211. Ebert III. Janus Films unknown books
1947ref. 148811West Hollywood: Eagle-Lion Films 1947. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1948 British film. One with Dion McGregor Collection stamp on the verso. After sustaining a head injury in a bus crash young scientist convalesces in a boardinghouse where a young woman is brutally murdered. Now a prime suspect with a poor memory due to the accident and no alibi he begins to wonder if he could have done it. Roy Ward Baker's directorial debut. Shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light corner and edgewear one with small chip to upper left corner two with pinholes and modest bruising. Selby Master. Selby UK. Grant UK. Spicer UK. Eagle-Lion Films unknown books
ref. 148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: a names of the chosen cast members b set rehearsals and camera rehearsals c times for shooting e.g. Morning Afternoon Evening and Night phone numbers for production personnel d names of potential and/or hired camera assistants e names of potential and/or hired actors f indication of the production company chosen Toho Corporation as well as film stock and lens sizes to be used g additional notes regarding location of some settings h changes to dialogue and action and h some final post-production notes. Director Akira Kurosawa's first color film based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 1962 novel "Kisetsu no nai machi" A City Without Seasons. A series of vignettes about a slum in the suburbs of Tokyo and its impoverished inhabitants. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. Script: White titled wrappers. Title page present. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered d-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding. Schedule: White titled wrappers. 13 leaves with last page numbered 23. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a faintly toned spine and very faint foxing to the fore-edge side-stapled with two staples. Detailed notes with translation of annotations noted above with accompanying images are provided with the script. Toho unknown books
1941ref. 148690Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 690 and copy No. 140 both rubber stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. John T. Bromley Joseph Allen a young man from high society is physically humiliated by a prizefighter William Haade before his socialite sweetheart Jenny Killian Brenda Joyce. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a rematch. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 140 and production No. 690 dated OCT. 23 1941. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated October 23 1941 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Walter Bullock. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/27/41 and 11/11/41. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963ref. 148710Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa considered one of the director's masterpieces following a small-town doctor and his new intern a highly educated arrogant young man. Set in the Edo district of Koishikawa. White titled wrappers with a blue titled dust jacket. Title page present dated 1963. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered g-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the rear wrapper with perfect binding. Jacket is Very Good plus with light foxing to the fore-edges and rear panel. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
1944ref. 148705Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1945 film here under the working title "Two-Faced Quilligan." Production No. 911 and copy No. 6 rubber stamped on the front wrapper with SHOOTING FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation in the script in manuscript pencil noting three names on the verso of last leaf. Patrick Michael Quilligan William Bendix captain of a barge named Mary named after his mother meets and falls for two women Joan Blondell and Mary Treen who remind him of his beloved deceased mother inadvertently marrying both. Set in Brooklyn and Utica New York. Brown titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 6 and production No. 911 dated DECEMBER 21 1944. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated December 21 1944 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Arthur Kober. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/2/45 and 2/28/45. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with large chip on right edge of front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1953ref. 148411New York: International News Photos 1953. Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe dated May 17 1953 "International News Photos" and "Return to: Chronicle Files" stamps on verso. The International News Photos snipe addresses the movie as "New Wine." While we could not verify that working title Rossellini and co-screenwriter Vitaliano Brancati had drawn on a script by Antonio Pietrangeli entitled "New Vine" for "Journey to Italy" and was likely an error by the news agency. Loosely based on the 1934 novel "Duo" by Colette. An English couple Alex George Sanders and Katherine Joyce Bergman eight years married travel to Italy to sell a villa inherited from Alex's uncle. Along the drive and during their stay at the villa they come to the realization they really don't know one another and have little desire to spend time together. Set in and shot on location in Naples and Rome Italy. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. BFI 540. Scorcese My Voyage to Italy. International News Photos unknown books
1971ref. 148885Hong Kong: Hong Hwa Film 1971. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. A young girl finds an injured warrior who is being hunted by seven devils. He begins training her in a secret form of "evil karate" and once she grows up they set out to defeat the seven devils and their master. 14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a shallow vertical crease. Light toning to one side of the flyer. Hong Hwa Film unknown books
1972ref. 148888Hong Kong: Kwong Ming Film 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. In early 20th century China a worker accidentally kills his boss in a fight. He flees to Thailand with his friends where they are forced to fight in an underground fighting ring. 14 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and occasional light foxing. Kwong Ming Film unknown books
1999ref. 137207Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO 1999. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the HBO television movie "The Jack Bull." Loosely based on the 1810 novella "Michael Kolhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist. A tale of revenge following a rancher who refuses to sell his ranch to a greedy land baron. The landowner slowly eats away at Cusack's livelihood charging tolls abusing his horses and later killing his wife. Set in Wyoming just prior to its statehood shot on location in Alberta. 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
ref. 149074Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. Uncredited makeup artist Rick Schwartz's copy with his ownership name on the title page in manuscript link and with penciled check marks throughout relating to close-ups in the film. Secretarial notation of supervising producer Irwin Allen's name on the title page. A stunt-heavy 1970s powerhouse designed to capitalize on the enormous success of the 1971 film "Evel Knievel" but with this entry featuring inimitable motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel as himself. Also cast are Gene Kelly as his alcoholic mechanic and Leslie Nielsen as a power-hungry Mexican drug lord. Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico unaware that a drug cartel intends to kill him and use his tour bus to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine. Set in California and Mexico shot on location in Monterey Park Burbank and Long Beach California. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated February 13 1976 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter Antonio Santillan sic. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
